While unit sales of most of Apple's computer lines were down in the fourth quarter of 2002, sales in its "peripheral and other hardware" category, into which the iPod falls, grew by more than 50% versus the year-ago quarter.
Mr. Melvin says he spends hours at the computer tracing power lines, looking for telltale shadows of electric towers or posts.
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The company will launch its mass production of the 17-inch model at it's Busan plant, producing some 150, 000 monitors a month, and will start producing the 19-inch models through some existing computer monitor production lines over the next year.
Some supermarkets for example have computers with millions of lines of computer instructions each of which has to be checked for date references.
In their pattern, the panels also bring to mind the lines of wireframe computer drawings.
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She hangs up and turns to her computer to poke out a few lines, then gets up to get another cup of tea and turns back around to save and name her document.
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Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
Dr. Davis has offered to provide at no cost to the government the conversion of 100, 000 lines of software code on a mainframe computer to demonstrate his program's abilities.
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Finally, after several weeks typing at his computer, Hotz had composed a string of code five hundred lines long.
It requires a bit of new plumbing and a few extra lines of code for the engine's control computer.
Usually, military operations are talked about in the abstract, as if they're lines on a chalkboard, or brightly glowing diagrams on a computer screen.
Along these lines, last June, Google connected together 16, 000 computer processors into a giant machine vision learning neural net and let them loose on YouTube.
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Toshiba , another Japan-based computer maker, has been following a similar strategy with its Portege and Satellite lines.
Amid the computer changeover, some reservations disappeared, gate agents struggled to board flights, phone lines had waits stretching hours.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
Where engineering in the 1880s organized itself around lines suggested by the physical sciences, the new technologists are organizing in new ways, along lines suggested by the cognitive, aesthetic and social sciences and arts: computer science, psychology, social psychology, user-experience and design.
Forget what you think you know about the benignly geeky computer programmer who lives for the thrill of finding a single misplaced semicolon in thousands of lines of code.
Cynics reckon that the Grid is merely an excuse by computer scientists to milk the political system for more research grants so they can write yet more lines of useless code.
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For example, the United States is working closely with Russia to reach an agreement that would establish links between our computer emergency response teams and our nuclear risk reduction centers to build cooperation and to set up lines of communication in the event of an alarming incident.
Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.
Outside lines, through a satellite phone, have at least been functional--although most computer systems are down.
But now Compaq Computer (nyse: CPQ - news - people ) has taken its notebook PC product lines in a new direction regarding wireless networking.
As software eats the world, every sort of engineering (and indeed, every sort of profession organized along lines suggested by the physical sciences, including fields like medicine) is becoming effectively a branch of computer science.
Given Apple's recent updates to all its product lines, it certainly has something truly noteworthy up its sleeve for July that is not necessarily a new computer per se, but something else.
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